We invite you to learn more about us, about the way we work, our subsidiaries and about our various brands, of course.
What does the future hold?
Landewyck aims to form new partnerships with local family businesses abroad.
Being innovative, as flexible as possible and constantly developing new quality tobacco products are the trump cards of the family business.
"Our family has not only dedicated itself
to the production of simple products,
but to the creation of consummateabsolute
moments of pleasure."
Jean-Pierre Heintz, in the spring of 1853.
It is the enjoyment of pleasure that prompted Jean-Pierre Heintz to open his factory - and this maxim of pleasure has accompanied us as a family company for six generations now. A maxim that is inconceivable without an acute awareness of quality. We work with a natural product – a fact from which we derive the obligation to precisely know and monitor the origins and routes of our raw materials before finally processing them.
But the description of our operations would be incomplete without mentioning the people working in our company. They ensure a cosmopolitan working atmosphere, know the tastes of the people throughout the world and are flexible enough to develop products for local markets. For wherever people’s tastes are different, their enjoyment may differ, too.
The working atmosphere at Landewyck is familiar and has always been the key to our success, despite our size. Everyone knows everyone else, because a Landewyck employees doesn’t drop in for a short visit, but usually stays with us for a long time.
Patience and innovation are essential attributes which, in combination, get to the heart of the way we work. We take time to develop the right products that are perfectly tailored to the consumer. This is why we analyze and interpret trends day by day to introduce new products to our customers again and again.
Our "homemade" quality seal of approval is important to us, which is why we systematically invest in our factories and manufacture our products ourselves in our European factories. We therefore insist on production at the highest European quality standard; after all, most people like "homemade" the best.
The things we enjoy also evolve - largely shaped by large and small innovations that make the use of tobacco in its present form, variety and quality possible in the first place. Many of these ideas come from us.
We therefore have continuously improved our production technology in terms of quality and effectiveness. We have developed new tobacco products that meet the taste, lifestyle, but also the handling requirements of people who enjoy life just for the pleasure of it. Some of these are produced in our subsidiaries, which have the freedom to independently develop new products. This openness makes us one of the most innovation-friendly companies in our industry.
Production and locations abroad
The tobacco we use is primarily imported from North America, Europe or Zimbabwe. After harvesting, the tobacco leaves are first dried and then subjected to a fermentation process.
Landewyck experts are in charge of the selection and purchase of tobacco. These specialists subject the samples to strict controls and only accept the best quality. The tobacco and stock for the entire company is processed and stored in our Luxembourg-Hollerich facility, which covers a total of 40,000 m2.
Since the taste of various cigarette brands shows differences while harvests vary from year to year, about 40 varieties of tobacco are blended to keep the taste of individual brands consistent.
The dried tobacco leaves are first weighed and then moistened with steam before they are blended. After storage for 24 hours, the blend is enriched with natural flavours before the tobacco leaves are cut and then sent to the curing facility. The blend is now ready for final processing.
Landewyck's headquarter in Luxemburg
German Factory
Cellulose-based cigarette filters are manufactured in the Ettelbrück factory. The six production machines turn out more than two billion filters per year, which roughly averages eight million a day. End to end, the daily output of filters would measure 1,000 kilometers. Landewyck has highly automated systems that help to ensure the company’s competitiveness at the highest level. Today's state-of-the-art machines can produce nearly 10,000 cigarettes per minute.
The plants in Luxembourg can reach a peak production output of 45 to 50 million cigarettes per day. The Hollerich plant also has a graphics department that allows the group to develop its own designs and custom packaging.
There is also an efficient, modern printing shop with a staff of 50 people in Hollerich. This is where packaging materials are printed for the Group's products in numerous different formats.
The group also produces a variety of different rolling and tubing tobaccos in the various Landewyck
Established in 1925, this subsidiary moved from the city center of Trier into a new factory in the industrial area of Trier-Euren in 1995. 300 people are employed here. The Trier plant specializes in packaging tobacco. More than 140 brands are produced for numerous countries. LANDEWYCK Trier is also the central distribution and accounting center for all products of the family business that are destined for the German market.
Halfzware and Zware tobaccos were mainly produced and marketed by the company Biggelaar (now Landewyck Holland) in Holland. The factory is based in Roosendaal and currently employs about 30 people. The company was founded in the 18th century and taken over by Heintz van Landewyck in 2001.
Rolling tobacco is packaged in pouches and tobacco for tubes in round tins. Special demands are placed on the machines making the tubes, especially when it comes to joining the filter to the tube. The tubes are manufactured by the company Róna in Debrecen/Hungary.
Róna was founded in 1867 and was taken over in 1993 by Heintz van Landewyck. The acquisition aimed at a strategically optimized positioning of the group in the markets of Middle Europe. Róna currently employs 300 people and is an important element in the group’s geographical diversification strategy. Landewyck Luxembourg can rely on a high-performance laboratory where the quality of raw materials is tested and monitored before they are processed into finished products.
Hungarian Factory
Heintz van Landewyck Luxembourg
31, rue de Hollerich
L-1741 Luxemburg
B.P. 2202
L-1022 Luxemburg
Tel.: +352 49 39 39-1
Fax.: +352 40 03 44
E-Mail: info@hvl.lu
Heintz van Landewyck is an independent Luxembourg group specializing in the production of cigarettes. The production facilities in Luxembourg can produce 45 to 50 million cigarettes per day.
The Hollerich plant has its own graphics department and a modern printing shop with about 50 employees. In addition, Landewyck Luxembourg has an efficient laboratory in which the quality of all raw materials is analyzed in detail.
